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Why servicemen and women don’t trust Trump to be their commander in chief for 4 more years.   says Americans who died in war are "losers" and "suckers." “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers,”   called John McCain “a fucking loser” when asked to lower flags to half staff.   called President George H.W. Bush a loser for being shot down during WWII.   said “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?” To Gen. John Kelly — while visiting Kelly’s son’s grave at Arlington.   “That guy is smart. Why did he join the military?” re: Joint Chiefs of Staff, he said asked his staff to not include wounded veterans in events because amputees make him uncomfortable.   https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/   Trump defended Russia from arming the Taliban against US Troops, saying the US did that once   https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-appears-to-defend-russia-arming-the-taliban-against-us-troops   Trump knew since Mar 2020 that Russia paid bounties to kill American troops, yet he has done nothing. he was briefed on options such as sanctions yet his admin has taken no action against russia for paying bounties for killing American and NATO troops.   https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html   In May 2020, the White House was planning to end National Guard deployments one day before they could claim benefits, but after the massive public outcry, they backtracked and let Guard members continue on their orders.   https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/20/trump-administration-extending-national-guard-deployments-272156   The Trump admin seized 5 million masks intended for VA hospitals. Kushner distributes these masks to private entities for a fee, who then sells the masks to the government   https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-admin-seizing-ppe/   https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/coronavirus-fema-medical-supplies.html   Trump's admin fired the captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt after he warned superiors that COVID19 was spreading among his crew. The virus subsequently spread amongst the crew.   https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/02/826317152/uss-roosevelt-commander-removed-after-criticizing-handling-of-coronavirus-outbre   After Iran's retaliatory strike, 109 US troops suffered brain injuries. Trump dismissed these as "headaches" https://apnews.com/eabf6766d717a2dd518a3c6319bb2430   https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/world/middleeast/trump-iraq-brain-injuries.html   Pardoned multiple war criminals, which stomped on long standing military values, discipline, and command. Trump has no military experience (May&Nov, 2019)   https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/11/16/trump-grants-clemency-to-troops-in-three-controversial-war-crimes-cases/   https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/16/us/trump-pardon-military.html   Trump mocked Lt. Col. Vindman for his rank and uniform. He threatened said purple heart officer, resulting in the Army providing him protection. Sent opposition research to the Pentagon to derail Lt. Col. Vindman's promotion   https://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-nsc-dirt-alexander-vindman-allegations-2020-7   https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-gop-slam-vindman-wearing-army-uniform-impeachment-hearing-2019-11   Trump’s Chief of Staff worked—in secret—to deny comprehensive health coverage to Vietnam Vets who suffered from Agent Orange.   https://www.militarytimes.com/pay-benefits/2019/10/23/white-house-responsible-for-delayed-decision-on-new-agent-orange-diseases-documents-show/   There is a facility in Tijuana for US veterans that Trump deported. Wounded war vet, Sen Duckworth (D) marked Veterans Day 2019 by visiting this facility   https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/deployed-then-deported-how-us-vets-who-served-their-country-get-kicked-out-11390471   Russia took control of the main U.S. military facility in Syria abandoned on Trump’s orders. Russia now owns the airstrip we built   https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-russia/russia-lands-forces-at-former-u-s-air-base-in-northern-syria-idUSKBN1XP0XN   https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/world/middleeast/kurds-syria-turkey.html   On Oct 7, 2019, Trump abruptly withdrew support from America's allies in Syria after a phone call with Turkey's president (Erdogan). Turkey subsequently bombed US Special Forces.   https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-to-pull-troops-from-northern- syria-as-turkey-readies-offensive/2019/10/07/a965e466-e8b3-11e9-bafb-da248f8d5734_story.html   https://www.npr.org/2019/10/07/767904589/shocking-trump-is-criticized-for-pulling-troops-from-syrian-border   In Sept 2019, he made an Air Force cargo crew, flying from the U.S. to Kuwait stop in Scotland (where there's no U.S. base) to refuel at a commercial airport (where it costs more), so they could stay overnight at a Trump property (which isn't close to the airport). Trump’s golf courses are losing money, so he's forcing the military to pay for 5-star nights there.   https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/09/07/c-17-crew-stops-at-trumps-scottish-golf-resort-en-route-to-kuwait/   https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/06/air-force-trump-scottish-retreat-1484337   In Sept, 2019, Pentagon pulled funds for military schools, military housing funds, and daycare to pay for Trump's border wall.   https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-pentagon/pentagon-pulls-funds-for-military-schools-daycare-to-pay-for-trumps-border-wall-idUSKCN1VP2VY   In Aug, 2019, emails revealed that three of Trump's Mar-a-Lago pals, who are now running Veterans Affairs, are rampant with meddling. "They had no experience in veterans affairs (none of them even served in the military) nor underwent any kind of approval process to serve as de facto managers. Yet, with Trump’s approval, they directed actions and criticized operations without any oversight. They wasted valuable staff time in hundreds of pages of communications and meetings, emails show. Emails reveal disdainful attitudes within the department to the trio’s meddling."   https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/25/politics/trump-mar-a-lago-crowd-va-emails/index.html   https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/22/digital-health-platform-mar-a-lago-members-1676335   Trump instructed aides to seize private property some of which contain military service member remains.   https://apnews.com/ad6f6247154548c3b28db33ae6a5eae9   Trump told officials he would pardon them if they break the law by illegally seizing property.   https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-08-28/trump-officials-border-wall-pardon   Children of deployed US troops are no longer guaranteed citizenship. This includes US troops posted abroad for years at a time (August 28, 2019)   https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/08/28/children-us-troops-born-overseas-will-no-longer-get-automatic-american-citizenship.html   On Aug 2, 2019, Trump requisitioned military retirement funds towards border wall   https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/military-retirement-trump-wall/   On July 31, 2019, Trump ordered the Navy rescind medals to prosecutors who were prosecuted war criminals   https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/07/31/trump-nixes-nams-for-4-prosecutors-tied-to-seal-case/   https://www.npr.org/2019/08/01/747144221/navy-rescinds-awards-to-prosecutors-in-case-of-seal-acquitted-of-murdering-capti   Trump denied a U.S. Marine of 6 years entry into the United States for his citizenship interview (Reported July 17, 2019)   https://thehill.com/homenews/news/453225-marine-corps-veteran-denied-entry-to-us-for-citizenship-interview   https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-07-17/marine-vet-denied-entry-us-scheduled-citizenship-interview   Trump made the U.S. Navy Blue Angels violate ethics rules by having them fly at his July 4th political campaign event (July 4, 2019)   https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-office-presidency-2020-reelection-20190703-story.html   https://www.npr.org/2019/07/03/738139123/on-july-4-trump-could-continue-pattern-of-politics-in-unexpected-places   https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/trump-july-fourth-rally-hatch-act-violation.html   Trump demanded US military chiefs stand next to him at 4th of July parade (reported July 2, 2019)   https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/trump-demands-us-military-chiefs-stand-next-to-him-at-4th-of-july-parade/ar-AADJGbc   In June, 2019, Trump sent troops to the border to paint the fence   https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/06/06/active-duty-troops-spend-month-painting-border-wall.html   Trump used his D-Day interview at a cemetery commemorating fallen US soldiers to attack a Vietnam veteran (June 6, 2019)   https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-mueller-made-such-a-fool-of-himself-in-last-weeks-public-appearance/2019/06/06/96dd8f9c-885f-11e9-a491-25df61c78dc4_story.html   Trump made his 2nd wife, Marla Maples, sign a prenup that would have cut off all child support if Tiffany joined the military (reported June 4th, 2019)   https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-prenup-melania-everything-we-know-2019-4#the-agreement-also-stipulated-that-trump-would-stop-the-100000-child-support-payments-for-maples-young-daughter-tiffany-when-she-turned-21-or-if-she-got-a-full-time-job-enlisted-in-the-military-or-joined-the-peace-corps-11   On May 27, 2019, Trump turned away US military from his Memorial Day speech because they were from the destroyer USS John S. McCain   https://www.businessinsider.com/uss-john-mccain-sailors-were-turned-away-from-trump-speech-2019-5   Trump ordered the USS John McCain out of sight during his visit to Japan (May 15, 2019). The ship's name was subsequently covered. (May 27, 2019)   https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/446076-white-house-asked-for-uss-john-mccain-to-be-out-of-sight-during   Trump's admin did nothing to fix the purge of 200,000 vets' healthcare applications (due to known administrative errors within VA’s enrollment system) even after a congressional testimony to point out the problem. (reported on May 13, 2019)   https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/06/07/trump-admin-va-applications/   Under Trump's Admin, ICE deported a spouse of fallen Army soldier killed in Afghanistan, leaving their daughter parentless (April 16, 2019)   https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2019/04/15/ice-deports-gonzalez-spouse-u-s-soldier-killed-afghanistan/3477332002/   On March 20, 2019, Trump complained that a deceased war hero didn't thank him for his funeral   https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47642335   Between 12/22/2018, and 1/25/2019, Trump refused to sign his party's funding bill, which shut down the government, forcing the Coast Guard to go without pay, which made service members rely on food pantries. and the generosity of private businesses like USAA and Navy Federal to cover their paychecks. However, his appointees got a $10,000 pay raise   https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-continues-retreat-on-government-shutdown-threat-pledges-to-renew-border-control-battle-in-2019/2018/12/20/3143a752-0457-11e9-b6a9-0aa 5c2fcc9e4_story.html   https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/01/trump-appointees-giant-raises-during-shutdown   He banned service members from serving based on gender identity (1/22/2019) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/us/transgender-troops-ban.html   He tried to denied female troops access to birth control to limit sexual activity (on-going. Published Jan 18, 2019)   https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/court-trump-birth-control.html   He tried to deport a marine vet who is a U.S.-born citizen (Jan 16, 2019)   https://www.npr.org/2019/01/17/686188335/ice-tried-to-deport-this-u-s-citizen-and-marine-veteran   When a man was caught swindling veterans pensions for high-interest “cash advances," Trump's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined him $1 (Jan 26, 2019)   https://theintercept.com/2019/01/26/cfpb-mulvaney-discount/   He called a retired general a 'dog' with a 'big, dumb mouth' (Jan 1, 2019)   https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/01/trump-mcchrystal-syria-troops-1077365   He increased privatization of the VA, leading to longer waits and higher taxpayer cost (2018)   https://psmag.com/social-justice/privatizing-the-v-a-is-not-cheap   https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-plots-costly-private-care-expansion-for-veterans   He revealed a covert Seal Team 5 deployment, including names and faces, on Twitter during his visit to Iraq (Dec 26, 2018)   https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-s-reveal-seal-team-iraq-could-endanger-its-members-n952521   Trump lied to deployed troops that he gave them a 10% raise (12/26/2018).   https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2018/12/27/in-iraq-visit-trump-makes-false-claim-about-military-pay-again/   He tried giving the military a raise that was lower than the standard living adjustment. Congress told him that idea wasn't going to work. Then after giving them the raise that Congress made him, he lied about it pretending that it was larger than Obama's. It wasn't.   He fired service members living with HIV just before the 2018 holidays https://time.com/5485126/lawsuit-air-force-discharge-hiv-positive-members/   https://www.lambdalegal.org/news/va_20181219_trump-quietly-starts-firing-service-members-living-with-hiv   He tried to slash disability and unemployment benefits for Veterans to $0, and eliminate the unemployability extrascheduler rating (Dec 17, 2018) This means disabled veterans could have seen their annual disability benefits fall from around $35,000 to around $13,000 under Donald Trump's budget proposal to cut "individual unemployability" for disabled veterans who were old enough to receive Social Security payments.   https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-disabled-veterans-cuts/   He called troops on Thanksgiving and told them he's most thankful for himself (Thanksgiving, 2018)   https://www.denverpost.com/2018/11/22/trump-troops-thanksgiving/medical-deferment-from-vietnam/   He urged Florida to not count deployed military votes (Nov 12, 2018)   https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-military-votes-florida/   He canceled an Arlington Cemetery visit on Veterans Day due to light rain (Nov 12, 2018)   https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/white-house-decision-cancel-veteran-s-cemetery-france-visit-creates-n934796   While in Europe commemorating the end of WWI, he didn't attend the ceremony at a US cemetery due to the rain -- other world leaders went anyway (Nov 10, 2018)   https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/10/trump-cancels-ww1-memorial-at-us-cemetery-in-france-due-to-rain-sparking-twitterstorm.html   He used troops as a political prop by sending them on a phantom mission to the border and made them miss Thanksgiving with their families (Oct-Dec, 2018)   https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/thousands-of-us-troops-celebrating-thanksgiving-at-the-border/2018/11/21/b6987c00-edd4-11e8-9236-bb94154151d2_story.html   Trump changed the GI Bill through his Forever GI Act, causing the VA to miss veteran benefits, including housing allowances. This caused many vets to run out of food and rent. (reported October 7, 2018)   https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/7/18129508/forever-gi-bill-student-veterans-housing-wilkie   Trump doubled the rejection rate for veterans requesting family deportation protections (July 5, 2018)   https://www.newsweek.com/trump-doubled-rejection-rate-veterans-requesting-family-deportation-1010571   https://www.npr.org/2019/06/27/736362986/trump-wants-to-withdraw-deportation-protections-for-families-of-active-troops   Trump deported active-duty spouses (11,800 military families face this problem as of April 2018)   https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/04/01/as-many-as-11800-military-families-face-deportation-issues-group-says/   He forgot a fallen soldier's name (below) during a call to his pregnant widow, then attacked her the next day (Oct 23-24, 2017)   https://www.militarytimes.com/news/2017/10/23/fallen-soldiers-widow-nothing-to-say-to-trump/   He sent commandos into an ambush due to a lack of intel, and sends contractors to pick them up, resulting in a commando being left behind, tortured, and executed. (Trump approved the mission because Bannon told him Obama didn't have the guts to do it) (Oct 4, 2017)   https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/17/world/africa/niger-ambush-american-soldiers.html   https://apnews.com/cb0d6c63f3ed4415a0bd19e98175f792   Doesn't stand during retreat bugle, continues to talk. "What a nice sound that is. Are they playing that for you [Sean Hannity] or me?"   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJyGXYq2lJ0   He ordered the discharge of active-duty immigrant troops with good records (2017-present)   https://www.npr.org/2018/07/09/626773440/u-s-army-is-discharging-immigrant-recruits-who-were-promised-citizenship   On Oct 3, 2016, Trump said vets get PTSD because they aren't strong   https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/trump-veterans-ptsd-not-strong-229050   Trump accepted a Purple Heart from a fan at one of his rallies and said: “I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier.” (Aug 2, 2016)   https://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-purple-heart-226565   If you know how service members receive purple hearts, then you should also realize how absurd it is for trump to say what he did.   Trump attacks Gold Star families: Myeshia Johnson (gold star widow), Khan family (gold star parents) etc. (2016-present)   https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/us/politics/donald-trump-khizr-khan-wife-ghazala.html   Trump sent roughly half of funds raised from a Jan 2016 veterans benefit to the Donald J Trump Foundation instead of veterans charities (the foundation has since been ordered shut because of fraud) (Jan, 2016)   https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/07/trump-ordered-to-pay-2-million-to-settle-trump-foundation-suit.html   Trump said he doesn't consider POWs heroes because they were caught. He said he prefers people who were not caught (July 18, 2015)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=541Cg2Jnb8s   Trump said having unprotected sex was his own personal Vietnam (1998)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5SqQhqpNm8   Trump dodged the draft 5 times by having a doctor diagnose him with bone spurs.   https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/02/27/trumps-lawyer-no-basis-for-presidents-medical-deferment-from-vietnam/

I'm going to keep this guide simple for the people new to IM. This is not something huge, is possible to scale, but goes to show you that old fashioned hard work still works. above is a screenshot that shows you how much money I've been able to make on a side project promoting products only using blog comments/reddit comments/forum posts, also known by some old-timers as the "Meathead method". You basically spam the web all over with your link and hope for conversions. I've been doing this on and off for close to a year at this point, and this is a screenshot of my total earnings from this method alone: Copy & paste is all I did to earn this money. And now the traffic comes every single month and I keep making sales. So, how did I do it? Step 1: find a Clickbank offer with low gravity (between 1-25). Step 2: either buy a domain name if you can afford it, or register a free one. You can even use a Blogspot blog for this purpose and place a 301 redirect in it if you're really broke. Step 3: redirect domain name to your affiliate link. Step 2: find relevant blog posts and forum threads. Step 3: leave a good comment where you add value, and recommend your product as the solution. Step 4: profit! It took me a few days of getting started with this to get my first sale, but then I just kept going and going once I realized what worked. I now make at least $3-500 monthly without adding new comments or forum posts around the web. It takes a lot of time and you're not guaranteed any success. There's probably better ways of spending your time but if you've got nothing, why not just start here? It might just be the change you need. Hope this inspires people out there. For those of you that are new to affiliate marketing, this is an easy way to get your first few sales and maybe get the capital to get your online ventures started. I wish you the best of luck :)

This probably sounds like a bunch of BS but I don't want to sell you my course, I don't want you to buy anything so ask yourself what do I have to gain besides just telling my story and helping others? Sounds fishy right? Yeah well not everyone is terrible so just take everything I say as a grain of salt and take something way from this story. The year was 2008 and I lost my job, I hardly had anything saved up but my significant other could cover the bills for a few months at least, until I figured something out. I always wanted to start my own business but never knew where to start. So I decided to think about what I could sell online and my first thought dogtags (the ones military wear) because my whole family is in the military and they all wear dog tags either their own or a lost loved one so I started stamping "quotes" into them for people to buy and give to love ones to wear. Purchased a cheap manual metal stamping kit on amazon for about $20, a few blank metal dog tags for another $20, and got to work stamping out all of them with this one "quote". "Always in my heart" I personalized each one with the clients name of choice, and charged $34. It started slow with maybe 1 sale a week but over time it grew into 50+ sales a day. The main way i grew this business was giving a thank you note in each box and always being kind no mater how terrible the customer was. Sometimes I would get backed up on orders and a customer would complain and I would try my best to explain I'm just a single mom trying my best but sometimes that didn't matter so I would go out of my way to make them happy offering to ship the product for free and refund the client. You know why? one happy client leads to 20 new clients sometimes. It's always worth it to take a loss and make a profit later. I never paid for advertising, the only thing I did was provide a quality item and top notch customer service. I have tons of competition, I even have sellers who copy my exact same words, there's nothing I can do about that I'm not going to copyright each "quote" it would bankrupt me. So don't get discouraged over competition, just be the better service. One last tip is your title should always have a good amount of "keywords" for an example: "Loss of a Dad - Sympathy Jewelry Gifts - Loss of a Parent Remembrance Necklace - Memorial Necklace - Dogtag" Etsy will do its best to advertise for you, (this is why it's worth to pay the commission) they only make money when you make money so they do have an incentive to get you some sales. I have found my products ranked #1 on Google for some "keywords" but you have to do some research before making a title. Yes I have my own website, and guess what? It only gets traffic from a small percentage of previous clients. Some clients prefer to keep buying from Etsy even when I offer a discount to buy from my website (in the note I include with each purchase I give a discount code for my website). My thoughts about this is people feel safer buying from Etsy VS my website. Or maybe they have a Etsy gift card? who knows? But end of the day I make over $100,000 a year on Etsy. If I closed down the Etsy and went only website, I would lose so much on advertising cost. Think about Etsy's commission as advertising cost. If you have any questions feel free to ask in the comments, and I will try to answer them.